Editing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Teams

{{Game
|name=Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
|image=[[Image:PokemonMysteryDungeonRedTeam.jpg|120px]][[Image:BlueRescueTeam.png|130px]]
|bgcolor=silver
|fgcolor=black
|developer=[[Chunsoft]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|system=[[Game Boy Advance]] (''Red'')<br />[[Nintendo DS]] (''Blue'')<br />[[Wii U Virtual Console]]
|release='''Game Boy Advance/DS'''<br />JP November 17, 2005<br />US September 18, 2006<br />AU September 28, 2006<br/>EU November 10, 2006<br />'''Wii U Virtual Console'''<br />PAL February 11, 2016<br />JP March 23, 2016<br />US June 23, 2016
|rating=ESRB: E
|}}

'''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team''' and '''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team''' are two versions of a ''Pokémon'' spin-off that utilizes roguelike gameplay in the style of Chunsoft's Japanese ''Mystery Dungeon'' series. Each version was available for a different system, with ''Red Rescue Team'' being available for the [[Game Boy Advance]] while ''Blue Rescue Team'' was made for the [[Nintendo DS}]. These games acted as the beginning of the ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' subseries.

=Story=

The player character is a human who has suddenly woken up one day in the body of a Pokémon and in a civilization of Pokémon. This person has no memories of their life as a human but quickly befriends a partner Pokémon.

The world has been devastated by an unusual number of natural disasters lately and the pair are asked to help a [[Butterfree]] find her child, a [[Caterpie]]. After the rescue, the two form a Rescue Team together to solve the world's problems. Along the way, they look for clues to solve the mystery of the human's transformation into a Pokémon and missing memories.

=Gameplay=

The player has their own home near Pokémon Square. At Pokémon Square, there are a number of helpful resources that can be employed for dungeon crawls, such as an item shop, bank and storage. The player can take on a number of missions and travel to different areas that are unlocked over the course of the game in order to accomplish these missions. These dungeon areas consist of multiple floors that are filled with enemies. Battles are turn-based, but take part in the field where even steps taken by the player count as a turn.

The player's Pokémon form can be one of sixteen Pokémon (including all of the starter Pokémon from the first three generations) and is decided by a quiz taken by the player at the beginning of the game as well as the gender chosen by the player. The player can then choose one Pokémon from that pool of Pokémon (excluding Pokémon of the same type as the player character) to act as the player's partner. The partner character acts as a loyal friend. In dungeons, both the player character and the partner have to be kept alive, or the player could be ejected from it. Players can recruit other  Pokémon at different times throughout the game, but they must obtain Friend Areas to house them. The player can assemble a party of up to four Pokémon for exploring dungeon areas. By completing missions, the player can increase their team's rank and earn rewards.

The two versions of the game are mostly similar, with one of the main gameplay differences being ''Blue Rescue Team'' utilizing the DS's second screen. As with the main games, there are some Pokémon that are exclusive to each version. The two versions can connect to each other with a feature called Wonder Mail, which can be used to unlock Pokémon from the other version. Wonder Mail could also be used to send out SOS Mail after a player fails at a dungeon, which can summon another player to rescue them.

''Blue Rescue Team'' also had a wireless feature called the Unknown Dungeon, which can be used to find rare items, and it can also connect to copies of ''[[Pokémon Trozei!]]'', which will trade Prize Coins to that game in exchange for random items.

=Legacy=

This spawned a new ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' subseries to the Pokémon games.

==Ports/Remakes==

*In 2016, both versions were released for download through the [[Wii U]]'s eShop as part of the [[Wii U Virtual Console]].

==Sequels==

These games were followed up by a second pair of games for the DS: ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness]]''.

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[[Category: Game Boy Advance Games]] [[Category: Nintendo DS Games]] [[Category: Pokémon Games]]